Melanie Curry
Recent Posts
Another California Executive Order: Conserve Lands, Align Policies to Fight Climate Change
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Advocates applaud the order, but how does it fit with ongoing efforts to widen freeways and drill more oil wells?
Building Community Capacity Means Expanding, Connecting Current Neighborhood-Level Efforts
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Current local disaster relief efforts are piecemeal, ad-hoc, and disjointed - and the state should invest in strenthening them
To Get People Using Clean Transportation, First Know What They Need
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And that means asking the right questions of the right people. California's Clean Mobility Options program requires grant recipients to do so, and has created a pilot program to supporting those efforts
Governor Signs Housing, Sustainable Transportation Bills
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But he vetoes a bill declaring housing as a human right, inconsistent with his willingness to set aspirational goals in other areas (such as electric vehicle mandates)
Bike to Whereever Day: A Pivot from BTWD, Celebrating Some Progress
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Events like these are a fabulous way of both celebrating the hard-fought changes we have seen and of reminding everyone why better bike facilities are important and necessary.
Bold Action Is Needed; This Executive Order Is Not That
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Governor Newsom's executive order calling for cleaner transportation only hints at the most important way to reduce transportation emissions and make life in California better: by encouraging and supporting walking, biking, and transit.
Governor Newsom’s Executive Order: No New Fossil-Fuel Vehicles in California by 2035
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As part of Climate Week 2020, California Governor Newsom today issued an executive order declaring the goal of eliminating fossil fuels from transportation, a sector that produces half of California’s toxic and greenhouse gas emissions. The order calls for ending all sales of new fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in the next fifteen years, and calls on various […]
Active Transportation Program Quick-Build Project Recommendations Released
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Eight projects recommended; CTC to decide on final list in October
BART Gets $1.2B Grant for Service Expansion; State Rewarded for Readiness with ~$500m
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Federal government announces two pots of federal funding for California transportation
California Doing Okay, Not Bad, on Walkability – But It’s a Low Bar
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The scores are based on metrics like whether the states have policies or offer funding in support of walkability, whether they focus on high-need communities, and whether they do anything to support active schools and neighborhoods.
A.B. 617: Plans for Monitoring, Improving Local Air Quality Move Along – at a Glacial Pace
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Meetings tomorrow will consider emission reduction plans for Long Beach, San Bernardino, and East L.A. areas.
AARP Keeps Quietly Giving Out Grants for Small but Powerful Ideas to Increase Livability
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A total of 184 "quick-action" projects win 2020 Community Challenge Grants; Six in California